Alright, time for me to do abit of blogging.

Back from 4th Advance Drills Course last Thursday. I can say that it was the best course I every attended throughout my whole NCC route of 6 years. I really felt the bond and together-ness of my platoon during the course. Maybe we are all Cadet Officers, thats why we are more open to each other lah but still I think it was damn
good.

The first day, didn’t start off the day nice lah. Got scolded even before the registration. It was damn stupid, I don’t want to mention anything here. After that, we fall-in in platoon level. We were all quite serious at the start lah, because I think we didn’t know each other well yet. All the way till lunch, we were still quite distant from each other. I also cannot really remember when we started to open up.

Had lectures for the first day and not much of practical I would say. Learn how to do formation of squad. I knew abit of it lah, cause was thaught to me by my seniors when I was still a Part C cadet. Did just a short while of practice, then dinner and lights out liao. But before that, we had a short debrief with out platoon instructors then move on to planning for our graduation ceremony. This task was always given to Cadet Officers Trainee of every ADC to do.

Second day, started off with a big task thrown to me. I was choosen to be the Course IC in the morning, and I wasn’t inform about it like earlier. I was only told when the Course 2IC was looking for me. Damn LOL lah. I didn’t even prepare anything, no pen nor paper. I had to go up to the West people to ask them to lend me. But I think I did a reasonable job lah. Though I didn’t do well at the start, I still manage to pull through for the rest of the morning till lunch.

For the second day, I think the lesson that most intrest me was the marking of parade ground. SM taught us how to use the pace stick and did markings on the parade ground. Really learn a lot from his lesson. I didn’t know there was so many things to be done when planning a parade. Basically, the whole day after that was learning footdrills.

Third day, started off the day again with PT. I think the run wasn’t as bad as I thought before I joined the course. Running with all my platoon mates were quite fun. And I didn’t really feel tired after the run. The whole day after that was full advance drills. We learn sword drills, rifle drills and colours drills. The sword drills was really a new thing to me lah and it was interesting too. Now at least I know the proper way of doing drills with the sword. After lunch, we had our theory test. The test wasn’t really difficult or easy lah. Cause the answers were all the key points that SM mention during his lectures. So if we paid attention, we would be able to score full for the whole paper. But unfortunately for me, I only remembered the 2nd half of his lectures and cannot really bring to my mind what was taught during the first and second day. In the end, I left quite a few blanks here and there lah. No choice mah, you don’t know means don’t know de.

Evening was dinner, debrief and planning again. But before all these, we had our pull-up test. I think I did my best liao lah. Manage to pull 4. Alot of us couldn’t complete, but we still cheered each other on. I think that was the time when you see the bonds of the whole platoon. Then during the planning, there were some arguments among us lah, but it was settled shortly after that.

Finally, the last day of the course. We were all very excited about it. Haha. Started to rain heavily in the morning, so PT was cancelled. YEAH!! Haha. We were all waiting for this rain to come and it only came on the last day. LOL. Had our Course AAR with SM then proceeded for course photo taking. The photo taking wasn’t very well done but I think it wans’t anybody’s fault, cause our course size was like 250? So it was difficult to get everyone in the picture lah. Had lunch after that, then was preparation for graduation liao. We were all like working hard for it lah. We did our part, doing the arrangement of chairs, taking care of cadets, training award winners, etc...

The time had finally came for the graduation ceremony. I should say that we all put in our best efforts for it liao. I can see the organizing people putting in a lot of hardwork too. The whole thing went on quite smoothly without much problems. The cadets had their donning of lanyards and then it marks the end of the whole course.
We all proceeded to the canteen for some light refreshments while some of us stayed back to clear up the MPH. After that, went to clear the bed sheets, pillow cases and blanket before having AAR with our instructors. We were awarded out badge at that time in section level. I think that was quite an emotional time for some of us, cause there were people who are close friends to us that failed due to certain reasons. But still we supported each other and walk out of the room together.
The time had finally came, the last dismissal. We asked the RSM to dismiss us, cause we had a special suprise for him. When the command Basu-RAI was given, we all shouted 1-check-1 CUT YOUR HAIR RSM!! Haha. After that, we taopok him on the ground. LOL. Damn funny.

Ok, that was for ADC. I now got to prepare for my trip next. Going to Bali tomorrow le, I don’t know what to bring sia. Haha. Blog again soon, byebye.